At 12 30 pm, the bell rang for lunch at school and everybody
ran out. However, I and Ananya went out last, in the fear of being followed. As
we went down the winding stairs many –a thoughts went racing in my mind; worries
about what is in store ahead during the lunch hour. I knew that there is no
escape from what was going to happen.
After what seemed like a century, we reached the designated
place at the ground. By that time we could see that all the lunchboxes were
opened and people had their handful and mouthful –both with food and
chitter-chatter. Slowly we also opened our boxes. And I remembered what happened at snack break earlier….
I was the first to eat my “LUNCH” as I tried to preserve “the snack” for later (and relish slowly). How could you expect me to complete the lunch in 10 minutes snack break?
Back to lunch time.
I quickly gobbled our boring, tasteless (Rotis with curry,
can it ever be tasty or different) lunch or whatever was left of it from snack
break. By this time, my friend Ananya also had gulped her stuff. We tried to
sneak away from the group - Sneha, Aditi, Shruti,Yesha, and Anusha B. We tried
to washout the remnants of tasteless rotis, with sufficient water, so as not
spoil the taste of what was about to come.World seemed to have gone into slow motion, as we opened our snackbox.
We checked what Ananya’s had in it. A slice of Cheese and a Nutri bar, smiling at us, inviting our watering mouth. I also had an almost melting chocolate given to me earlier by Anusha B. But the real star of the day has to wait for little longer.
We , I and Ananya, divided the chocolate into half and slowly
licked it till we were only left with flavoured fingers. Then it was the turn
of Cheesy slice and Nutri bar (of course divided into two), to go the same
route.
We two huddled together to ensure not even the smell of IT
goes out. You never know how hyper my friends can become, if they as much as
sniff IT. For a moment, a horrible evil
thought took over my mind- should I run away with the treasure box? I know it
is not right to ditch your friend, but it is not always easy to control.
Delicious fruity smell engulfed the atmosphere. Finally, the
star of the day was to make the appearance – 10 Jelly Belly and single Fruit
Gem. Slowly one by one, (every piece equally divided) each of the 10 pieces
made their way to our eager and watering tongue. First strawberry, then lime,
followed by bubble gum….and so on. We took care not to bite them, just sucked
and let the juices flow in.
We were completely lost, savouring the sweet-sour taste- two
princesses in paradise.Finally, it was time for the king to arrive in our mouth. I knew that had I not divided the fruit gem properly. If she comes to know, my friend would have strangled me. Sadly, our joy was to not last long. For the second we kept the sour sweet in our mouth, the wretched bell rang. Yet we sucked on the tasty gem through class.
Have you ever experienced this?
